The "anti-gay" movement is a result of an economic desire for more money. Throughout time conservative individuals be it government or churches have had to use techniques to create an enemy in order to gain power or control which leads to conquest, money and wealth.
During WWII supposedly civilized human beings demonized the enemy. People of German extraction were subject to incredible abuses simply because their ancestors came from a country which was dumb enough because of desperation to place Adolph the paper hanger into office as their leader. We put people of Japanese ancestry who were in fact American Citizens in concentration camps because we could by appearance identify them as Asian.
After World War II and the crushing of the German, Italian and Japanese campaigns of terror we then again turned against the Russians placing them a second time into the hot seat. Preachers were a "preachin" away about the evils of communism from the pulpit, and to defeat the communists the collection plates were full.
By the final years of the 1970's it was quite obvious that the communist menace was running out of steam.
We could no longer demonize people of color and be politically correct, we had to let up on what was now acceptable. How are the guys needing to feed their coffers at the expense of some group going to find something to rant about and demonize?
We can all pay great homage to the real problem child who handed the religious right their next campaign and that was Anita Bryant. The former beauty queen became a venomous spokesperson and it was Anita who was used by the religious right to test the water on various television shows touting a religious viewpoint and often a narrow minded and bigoted viewpoint.
The religious right and ultra conservatives courtesy of Bryant had their new target to demonize and that was people who were homosexual in orientation. They fabricated, they lied, they doctored film to imply what they could not really document. Through very careful editing they took one image and created another.
Then we had televangelists trying very hard to increase their incomes. These people were so incredibly desperate to demonize they would stop at nothing and simply re-write everything to fit their model.
The gay community had never heard of a children's television show called "Tele-tubbies" which was geared to children aged pre-language skills until the late Jerry Falwell during an interview with Pat Robertson opened his mouth and claimed that the non speaking character "Tinky Winky" was promoting homosexuality. After all he had an inverted triangle for an antenna and every 2 year old knows that an inverted triangle is a gay symbol. Jerry Falwell however did not understand that the inverted pink triangle was not originated by the gay community, but instead by Adolph Hitler as he sent countless gay men and women to the gas chambers with those of the Jewish Faith. Gay people were marked with this as prisoners so that the gay people could be "identified".
Falwell and his Moral Majority and other organizations were not made of people trying to eradicate homosexuality. They were simply money laundering corporations operating in the disguise of a church or religious movement and feeding huge sums of money into the pockets of Falwell himself.
Homosexuality is not a choice. If it were a choice how would you sell or promote it. OK, come and join our exclusive group! The dividends are that your life will not be your own, you run the chance of being beat up or killed by extremists, your home can be graffitied, you can be terminated by a bigoted supervisor on false charges, and if your a teenager you can have the true privilege of being tied to a tree and killed by other kids throwing rocks because their pastor told them that you are in a sense not a human being. Oh Yeah! This is so full of selling points!
Sadly, there are so many uneducated people who will believe anything they are told that I don't see stupidity being eradicated, and this is a necessity to eradicate descrimination, bigotry and homophobia.
Remember, the USA to this very day maintains that individuals who are HIV sero-positve cannot legally visit the United States. We are among the most bigoted and stupid individuals in history. There are 3rd world countries that are more intelligent than that.
Many gay teens to this day are abused to the point of wanting to take their own lives and few know why. Many others self medicate with drugs or alcohol and die that way and nobody knew why.
I am not comfortable around "drag" because it does not represent an interest, I do defend the rights of others to be themselves whatever that may be.
Until we grant equal rights to all orientations by federal statute including the right to marry if we so choose, we will not even begin to make a dent in the stupidity that fosters some of the moronic opinions of extremists.
During WWII supposedly civilized human beings demonized the enemy. People of German extraction were subject to incredible abuses simply because their ancestors came from a country which was dumb enough because of desperation to place Adolph the paper hanger into office as their leader. We put people of Japanese ancestry who were in fact American Citizens in concentration camps because we could by appearance identify them as Asian.
After World War II and the crushing of the German, Italian and Japanese campaigns of terror we then again turned against the Russians placing them a second time into the hot seat. Preachers were a "preachin" away about the evils of communism from the pulpit, and to defeat the communists the collection plates were full.
By the final years of the 1970's it was quite obvious that the communist menace was running out of steam.
We could no longer demonize people of color and be politically correct, we had to let up on what was now acceptable. How are the guys needing to feed their coffers at the expense of some group going to find something to rant about and demonize?
We can all pay great homage to the real problem child who handed the religious right their next campaign and that was Anita Bryant. The former beauty queen became a venomous spokesperson and it was Anita who was used by the religious right to test the water on various television shows touting a religious viewpoint and often a narrow minded and bigoted viewpoint.
The religious right and ultra conservatives courtesy of Bryant had their new target to demonize and that was people who were homosexual in orientation. They fabricated, they lied, they doctored film to imply what they could not really document. Through very careful editing they took one image and created another.
Then we had televangelists trying very hard to increase their incomes. These people were so incredibly desperate to demonize they would stop at nothing and simply re-write everything to fit their model.
The gay community had never heard of a children's television show called "Tele-tubbies" which was geared to children aged pre-language skills until the late Jerry Falwell during an interview with Pat Robertson opened his mouth and claimed that the non speaking character "Tinky Winky" was promoting homosexuality. After all he had an inverted triangle for an antenna and every 2 year old knows that an inverted triangle is a gay symbol. Jerry Falwell however did not understand that the inverted pink triangle was not originated by the gay community, but instead by Adolph Hitler as he sent countless gay men and women to the gas chambers with those of the Jewish Faith. Gay people were marked with this as prisoners so that the gay people could be "identified".
Falwell and his Moral Majority and other organizations were not made of people trying to eradicate homosexuality. They were simply money laundering corporations operating in the disguise of a church or religious movement and feeding huge sums of money into the pockets of Falwell himself.
Homosexuality is not a choice. If it were a choice how would you sell or promote it. OK, come and join our exclusive group! The dividends are that your life will not be your own, you run the chance of being beat up or killed by extremists, your home can be graffitied, you can be terminated by a bigoted supervisor on false charges, and if your a teenager you can have the true privilege of being tied to a tree and killed by other kids throwing rocks because their pastor told them that you are in a sense not a human being. Oh Yeah! This is so full of selling points!
Sadly, there are so many uneducated people who will believe anything they are told that I don't see stupidity being eradicated, and this is a necessity to eradicate descrimination, bigotry and homophobia.
Remember, the USA to this very day maintains that individuals who are HIV sero-positve cannot legally visit the United States. We are among the most bigoted and stupid individuals in history. There are 3rd world countries that are more intelligent than that.
Many gay teens to this day are abused to the point of wanting to take their own lives and few know why. Many others self medicate with drugs or alcohol and die that way and nobody knew why.
I am not comfortable around "drag" because it does not represent an interest, I do defend the rights of others to be themselves whatever that may be.
Until we grant equal rights to all orientations by federal statute including the right to marry if we so choose, we will not even begin to make a dent in the stupidity that fosters some of the moronic opinions of extremists.